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Different forms of social inequality in Bronze Age Italy. E-book. Formato EPUB Andrea Cardarelli - Gangemi Editore, 2017 -
The development of forms of inequality in mainland Italy is analyzed for the periods between the Early Bronze Age and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (Recent Bronze Age). Basically about a millennium (ca. 2200-1150 BC) during which a trend towards more structured and hierarchical forms of social and political organization can be observed. In this perspective, the earliest forms of inequality – i.e., based on established forms of economic differentiation, and not only on rank – are visible at the threshold of the Recent Bronze Age in some regions. This paper reconsiders the model developed by Renato Peroni since 1970s, on the basis of the main archaeological evidence of recent years. Although the overall validity of that model is acknowledged, the wealth of recent evidence provides the opportunity to update and integrate the former model in several, substantial aspects. | Lo sviluppo di forme di diseguaglianza nel continente italiano possono essere colte fra il Bronzo Antico e il Bronzo Recente (2200 -1150 a.C.). In linea generale durante questo periodo è riconoscibile un generalizzato sviluppo di modelli socio-economici e politici con crescenti livelli di articolazione e gerarchia sociale. Tuttavia le prime forme di consolidate differenziazioni su base economica, e non solo basate su diversi livelli di rango, sembrano potersi cogliere in alcuni ambiti geografici solo alle soglie del Bronzo Recente. In questo articolo viene rivisitato e riconsiderato il modello proposto da Peroni a partire dagli anni settanta del secolo scorso riguardante le diverse forme di formazioni socio-economiche della protostoria. Sulla base delle maggiori evidenze archeologiche emerse negli ultimi due decenni vengono proposte alcune sostanziali integrazioni e modifiche al modello originario.
The emergence of elite identities in Bronze Age Europe. E-book. Formato EPUB Anthony Harding - Gangemi Editore, 2017 -
In this paper methods for identifying inequality, and therefore elites, in the archaeological record are considered, especially the use of Gini coefficients. While this method has not so far been applied to Bronze Age situations, its use in other periods is well attested. For the Bronze Age, it is possible to recognise a number of elite identities, notably that of the warrior. This identity developed over the course of the period, reflecting changes in the type of warfare practised. Other identities are recognisable, but determining whether they are elite or not is a problematical issue. | Nel presente articolo sono considerati diversi metodi per identificare le ineguaglianze, e dunque la presenza di elite, nei contesti archeologici, considerando in special modo il Coefficiente Gini. Sebbene questo metodo non sia stato finora applicato ai contesti databili all’Età del Bronzo, il suo utilizzo per altri periodi è ben documentato. Per l’Età del Bronzo è possibile riconoscere un certo numero di identità d’elite, specialmente quella dei guerriri. Tale identità si sviluppò nel corso dell’epoca riflettendo i cambiamenti del tipo di guerra praticata. E’ possibile riconoscere altre identità ma determinare se fossero elitarie a meno è più problematico.
The origins of inequality. E-book. Formato EPUB Andrea Cardarelli - Gangemi Editore, 2017 -
Between the latter half of the 1940s and roughly the mid-1970s, Western democratic societies experienced a generalised expansion in the distribution of wealth, which also affected sections of society which had previously been excluded or side-lined, and which had considerable positive effects on social protection systems and the expansion of workers’ rights. But in the past four decades, we have seen a reversal of this trend, towards the concentration of wealth in the hands of an increasingly smaller number of individuals and a sharp growth in inequality, accompanied by increasingly more dominant free trade-led economic policies. The driving force behind the West’s neo-liberal policies has been to foster greater wealth accumulation in the hands of the higher social and entrepreneurial class, claiming that more ‘productive’ development would inevitably trickle down to benefit the rest of the population. The inequality gap would therefore, it was assumed, automatically narrow in the successive phases of capitalist development, to eventually stabilise at an acceptable level.